Wiping Google Earth completely off my system
I need to know how to wipe Google Earth completely off my system before I try reinstalling.
Downloaded GoogleEarthLinux.bin and installed. It ran fine a couple of times. Now it hangs at startup and stops responding. A couple dozen clicks on the close button and it asks if I wish to terminate it. No idea at all why it's hanging. |
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Or if you use Fedora yum remove GoogleEarth |
Did you installed as user or as root?
As user, just delete the directory Code:
/home/user/google-earth Code:
/home/user/bin/googleearth delete the directoy Code:
/opt/google-earth Code:
/usr/local/bin/googleearth |
Running Debian 5.0 Lenny
I'm running Debian 5.00 Lenny
The .BIN is a self installer so I don't know if "Synaptic Package Manager" will show it. |
The bin will install in /opt or /home/user/google-earth
depending if you install as user or root. |
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/home/(username)/.googleearth And yes, I had exactly the same problem, and I figured it out as above. I suppose you could "sudo chown -R (username)" the .googleearth directory, but I prefer removing the directory and giving Google Earth a fresh start. |
hey there
As I use debian lenny too maybe I could give you some advice about how to install or reinstall google earth on x86-64 machines 'cause on 32 bit systems it's fairly simple. If you want too delete a previous installation of google earth just search for it (configure your search parameters first) and delete every google earth folder you may meet from root console, or install gnome commander and run it as root if you don't know the proper command lines.
On 32 bit systems there are only two steps to install google earth: supposing u have the right repositories in the root terminal just type> apt-get install googleearth-package now go to your desktop from your terminal, using a command something like this cd /home/yourusername/Desktop now just type make-googleearth-package --force, and the result would be a *.deb package that i suppose you already know how to install. On 64 bit debian systems before running the make-googleearth- package command, search in synaptic for nspluginwrapper and install it, that should do the trick. And yeah one more thing, if you want google earth to run smoothly you must have your video card properly installed, with it's 3d acceleration capabilities enabled. |
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